DeKalb Schools Superintendent Steve Green says a bill targeting his school district is "politically motivated" because the district isn't financially participating in a tax district to help redevelop the former General Motors site in Doraville.
House Bill 969, introduced by State Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, seeks to cut DeKalb County School District funding by about $56 million annually to the minimum allowed in the most of the state’s other county school districts. While the bill’s language calls on the state to reduce the amount of education funding, it does not reduce the property tax rate DeKalb residents and businesses pay.
“Today, after much work, we have finances under control with fiscal integrity … but our system remains at a crucial stage of recovery,” Green writes in an op-ed delivered to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We still need resources to address aging classrooms, teacher pay, safety, and support services. Now, we face a new – apparently politically motivated – obstacle.”
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